What is it about the college years that are honed in upon so often and so closely in literature, movies, television, and even the stories that are shared by young and old alike? Could it be the newfound liberation and emancipation from not just childhood playthings but a rushing tide into an ocean of ideas, thoughts, and adventures to be had? Or is it more along the lines of a person taking their development into their own hands? Or maybe it's just the overarching fact that: college just kinda rocks, man.
College is just life, and life is just chock full of all of us people, so a nod is to be given that everyone's experience is bound to be different. There's truly an entire spectrum. You might find yourself right smack dab in the middle of Animal House, navigating the hilariously unruly aspects of college or you're
all in disarray at the onset of schooling but garner inner strength (fabulous) to attain your goals? If scented paper slips into your binder (rather than the word toga slipping into your vocabulary as in the aforementioned) you too might be the high energy, high victory rate Elle Woods, but patience with the slight debacles that show up along the way.
Maybe standard class is not your game, but you're an outrageously fast thinker, doer and see things others don't. Within the box is not where you will ever dwell.
You are in the zone. You might hear "know it all", but then again you absolutely do. You've been waiting your whole life to be in the high charged intellectual forum.
From Quentin in The Sound and the Fury to Victor in Frankenstein to Stephen in Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man, it is evident that in film, literature, and life itself, the environment of college is conducive to such a vast array of tremendous experience. No matter where one places themselves, in or out of the classroom, the good company is extensive (perhaps just learn from Quentin Compson though).
It is sincerely fascinating how the overtly blank yet also extremely embellished platform that is ~university~ yields such boundary-breaking exhibitions within people themselves, discovering him or herself within the context of not just the world at that moment, but designing themselves into the fabric of our history.
